Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A costly Canaan : Morton and the margins of American literature
  • Advancing the gospel, dividing the church : design and vision in Bradford's Plymouth
  • "A strange poise of spirit" : the life and deaths of Thomas Shepard
  • The charter and the "model" : writing Winthrop's holy state
  • Doubt's venture, faith's call : Shepard's activist Calvinism
  • Regeneration through violence : Hooker and the morale of preparation
  • Primitive comfort : the spiritual witness of John Cotton
  • Wives and lovers : reaction and the gender of Puritanism
  • Marching orders : Johnson's summary syntax
  • Government in exile : Williams and the decay of dialogue
  • Epilogue: "God's altar" : the fall to poetry.